What's up guys? Derek more plates more dates.com. Today I'm going to be talking quickly about how to

distinguish if you have endrogenic alopecia or telogen effluvium or acute telogen effluvium. So what you

may or may not know if you've seen some of my previous videos in hair loss, there's a difference between

follicular miniaturization triggered by

and shedding triggered by nutritional deficiencies, hormonal fluctuations,

environmental stressors, toxins, allergies, you know, what have you, things that can cause fluctuation in your body

and basically force your hair into the shedding face quicker than it otherwise normally would be.

Things like hypothyroidism, things like radiation therapy.

There's a lot of stuff that can cause shedding that's not necessarily,

androgenic alopecia is facilitated via androgens in your body

causing this cascade of events that ultimately leads to the miniaturization of hair follicles and

you know this systemic or i should say concentrated um hypoxia essentially of the follicle and, you know, not killing it off

permanently, but there's a big difference between something being miniaturized and something just

being forced to shed out of your head.

So the distinguishing way you can do this, this is actually a good study to reference, it's

the title of the study is distinguishing

endergenetic alopecia from chronic telogen effluvium when associated in the same patient. So

basically how this is evaluated is when you look at a hair, when you shed a hair and you

pull hair out of your head or you look at your

shower drain or whatever which i recommend you guys do get a shower drain or a hair catcher i should say

to gauge your progress because evaluating if a treatment is efficacious or not for you in particular

and kind of where your baseline shedding levels are at before and after you

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